I agree that it doesn't seem to make sense to green light this road reconfiguration until A) they are sure they are actually going to build C0 and C9 B) they finalize the designs of C0 and C9 (what if they want to change the design such that it requires a new roadway config? eg MSC South looks a lot different from the inital design) C) they are 100% confident it won't create problems during the Olympics D) they have some experience with what the actual impact of the people mover et. al. is on traffic within the horseshoe (which one would think could inform the roadway design decisions to some extent).

All this has to be apparent to the LAWA staff as well. One reason I could see them wanting to push ahead is if there was some kind of federal grant money that will expire if they don't start construction. Does anyone know if that's the case? Otherwise this seems like pretty ill-advised timing.